Land in the county called formerly Goochland, now Albemarle and known as the Fork. According to the APC, King appeals from two equity orders that barred him from proceeding at law in ejectment to recover the land and ordered him to convey the land to the respondents upon their paying certain sums.

Although the case mentions only Lewis and Burwell in the heading, Braxton is mentioned in the body of the case. There is, however, no reference to Braxton’s cross-appeal.

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Law Library of Congress: Sir George Lee collection (Noted in ESTC? No.)

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New-York Historical Society: SY – DC 1754 no. 1 (Noted in ESTC? Yes.)

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Yale University. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: ZZ40 25 (Includes manuscript notes, notably on the dorse, where there is an index referring to events in the 1730s and 1740s. The references correspond, for the most part, to events mentioned in the brief, but the page numbers suggest that they refer to a much fuller record of the case.) (Noted in ESTC? No.)

In addition, see papers relating to the King controversy in the Joshua Sharpe papers in the Thomas Phillipps collection at the Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division. At the University of Virginia, the Tracy W. McGregor Autograph Collection in Series 1, Letters and Manuscripts, holds in manuscript what is described as: a draft of the appellant’s brief in the case of Walter King v Carter Braxton. This manuscript appears to be a working summary of the fuller record in the appeal containing chancery documents, letters, and depositions.